warrant
\wa.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“warrant” is uncommon French (frequency #69,530 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,530
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récépissé délivré aux commerçants, lorsqu’ils déposent des marchandises dans un entrepôt, et qui constate la valeur de ces marchandises, pour but de garantie financière sur ce bien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-warrant · warrant · French
warrant · rank #69,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,530
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH warehouse
Nearest frequency peer: warehouse (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « warrant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voyent
voyent
30,475 corpus weight
- wallabies
wallabies
30,474 corpus weight
- Warburg
Warburg
30,473 corpus weight
- warehouse
warehouse
30,472 corpus weight
- warrant
warrant
30,471 corpus weight
- webdesign
webdesign
30,469 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « warrant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | warrant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wa.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « warrant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
warrant is uncommon French at frequency #69,530 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \wa.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for warrant in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is warrant, spelled W-A-R-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Récépissé délivré aux commerçants, lorsqu’ils déposent des marchandises dans un entrepôt, et qui constate la valeur de ces marchandises, pour but de garantie financière sur ce bien.
- 2Contrat transférable qui donne à son détenteur le droit, et non l’obligation, d’acheter ou de vendre une quantité donnée d’un actif spécifique, à un prix déterminé d’avance, à la date d’échéance du contrat.
- 3Gage de garantie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warrant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, par le système des docks, le négociant n'a point à s'occuper du matériel de la marchandise ; et par celui des warrants, il peut mettre sa marchandise en portefeuille, comme toute autre valeur circulable.
S’il en est ainsi, ces arriérés de tortures, ces débets de détresse, ces warrants de peines évitées, doivent produire de terribles intérêts, Là-Haut.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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